Translation of abstract (English)

About 1477 the so called “Ludwig-Henfflin-Werkstatt” produced several German manuscripts for Margarethe of Savoy, the countess of Württemberg. They were made with numerous illustrations. Among those manuscripts there was an Old Testament, which was separated into three codices: Cod. Pal. germ. 16, 17 and 18. Today they can be found all conjoined in the Library of Heidelberg University. This article shall deliver some insight into the mode of production of the manufactory, which was probably settled in Stuttgart, and the literacy tradition it dealt with. For the most part it was necessary to focus on the Old Testament. For an art historian it is especially interesting to notice how the manufactory used a new way of producing and illuminating its books. It anticipates the method of serial printing. In this time we can see an opposite ascendancy of graphic and hand drawing. During the given frame of time we can see graphics and hand drawing exerting a mutual influence on each other. The pictures of the “Ludwig-Henfflin-manuscripts” are a beautiful example of illustrations in the period of transition between the Middle Ages and the modern era. Margarethe of Savoy, a descendant of the famous Jean de Valois the “Duc de Berry”, obtained manuscripts which also show Burgundian and courtly elements. The illuminations not only interconnect Southern Germany with Burgundy, but also link drawing with graphics and the Middle Age with the early modern age.